Of all human ills greatest is fortunes wayward tyranny.
Sophocles
Profession: Poet Nationality: Greek
A human being is only breath and shadow.
Even a poor man can receive honors.
Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.
Evil gains work their punishment.
To the man who is afraid everything rustles.
Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
A State for one man is no State at all.
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
I am at the end. I exist no more.
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
To err from the right path is common to mankind.
